How To Make Face Frame Cabinet Doors

Begin by drilling 1 3 8 holes 1 2 deep with a forstner bit below.

How to make face frame cabinet doors.

Cabinet doors can make or break the look of your kitchen or bathroom cabinets and the longevity of the cabinets. Full overlay cabinet door tutorial. Make a list of the parts of your diy shaker cabinet doors before you begin. Figuring the length of the stiles is easy.

I use wood glue and my k5 kreg jig set for 3 4 material and use 1 1 4 coarse thread pocket hole. The process at least. Now mount the doors on your cabinet. Thanks to their adjustability european style hinges make mounting doors as easy as assembling them.

With all of the upper cabinets for my kitchen made and installed i moved on to making the cabinet doors. Choose which door to make. I generally always build my face frames out of 1 2 poplar when painting. In this video i am copying the dimensions of an old cabinet door in order to replace one that is missing in the kitchen.

Here are all of the rough cut parts for the eleven doors i ll need. How to build and attach a cabinet faceframe build faceframe. Extra tall so you can trim their ends after gluing. This makes room for adjustments when installing them next to one another.

Build the face frame so that the bottom rail rails are horizontal boards and stiles are vertical boards projects 1 16 in. Above the bottom shelf of the cabinet. The secret lies in the workmanship and quality of materials used to make cabinet doors. If staining your piece you want to match your face frame wood as closely as possible to your carcass lumber.

Lets update an old cabinet and make it look new again. Start by taking a survey of your existing cabinets. For each one you ll need two stiles the vertical parts two rails the horizontal parts and one panel. On the outside edge.

Face frames on sides of kitchen cabinets should overlap 1 4 in. It s a good idea to make your doors 1 8 in. Learn about 4 types of hinge installation for face frame cabinets.